Improvement in fence



duited gieten @met @itin -P.DAV1S,'OF NEWPORT NEWS,-VIRGINIA.l

Letters Patent No. 91,918, dazed .um 29,1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent: end makngpart cf the sanne.

To all whom it' may concern Be it known that I, P. DAvIvs, of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful improved Fence; and Ifdo. hereby declare the following t'o be a full, clear, aud'exf 1t consists in the arrangement of the picketsriu such v a manner, that while their upper ends shall be retained between twisted wires in the usual mode, their lower ends shall be insert-ed in the earth, thus dispensing with thecustoinary duplica-te twisted wires.

By this means, the lower wires'usually employed in the construction of such fences are dispensed with, as the ground serves to hold thelower ends of the palings firmly in place.- A

In the drawingsnear their upper ends, as shown.

B are the palings, whose upper ends are inserted bea a are the wires, stretched betweenlthe posts E E,

.tween the'wires, and partially revolved, to twist the same suiiiciently to hold the palings in place.

The latter are revolved alternately in opposite directions, so that the wires shall'be crossed between them, as shown at G. v

The lower ends F of the palings are coated with tar, to prevent their decomposition when driven into the ground.

My-improved fence. is cheaply constructed, and, as

beibremientioued, avoids the necessity of employing bottom wires for holding the pickets in place.

` Having thus described m'y invention,V

-What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters'P-atenl, is-

The fence, constructed as described, of the palings B, inserted at their upper ends between the wires a ct, which are stretched between theposts E E, theirlower ends being coated with tar, and driven into the' ground,

`as. herein set forth, for the purpose specified.

Witnesses:

B, H. HU-ns'ris, E. E; WoonwARn.

P. lDAVIS. 

